Who
Mira Marcinow
Author · Scientist · Poland
A writer and philosopher, born in 1985, a doctor of humanities in the field of psychology from the Jagiellonian University and a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She read the interdisciplinary humanities programme in Kraków and took master's degrees in philosophy and in psychology before defending her doctorate at the Institute of Psychology. At the Academy she works in the Department of Logic and Cognitive Science and heads the Centre for Psychoanalytic Thought, which she co-founded, and she has taught at SWPS University in Warsaw and at the Jagiellonian University.
Her doctoral dissertation won the Prime Minister's Award, and she has held a scholarship from the Ministry of Science, the Adam Krzyżanowski Fund award and the Jerzy Perzanowski Award, along with a national scholarship for outstanding young scholars in 2018. She was a finalist for the Polityka Science Award in 2019 and was nominated for the Poznań Literary Award in the same year. She started Radio Głosy and co-organises the Open Philosophical and Psychiatric Seminars.
She writes on the history of Polish psychiatry, on melancholy, the history of ideas, literary madness, dance and the psychopathology of animals. Her books are On the Edge of Freedom (2012), the first volume of A History of Polish Madness (2017), The Unhealed Wound of Narcissus, written with Bartłomiej Dobroczyński (2018), and Bezmatek (2020), for which she received the Polityka Passport for literature in 2020 and a Nike Literary Award nomination in 2021.
